LEST WE FORGET

Sergeant Gordon Clyde LLOYD

Service No: 412984
Born: Rockdale NSW, 21 October 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 August 1941
Unit: No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale VIC
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1 Operational Training Unit Beaufort aircraft A9-155), Bairnsdale, 1 February 1943, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Bairnsdale War Cemetery, VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James Henry Gordon Glanville Lloyd and Annie Elizabeth Lloyd, husband of Edna Grace Lloyd, of Hurstville, New South Wales.
Roll of Honour: Hurstville NSW
Remembered: Panel 112, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Hurstville War Memorial, Hurstville NSW

On 1 February 1943, Beaufort A9-155 crashed after take-off at Bairnsdale. The cause of the crash is recorded as obscure.

The crew members of A9-155 were:

Sergeant Reuben Henry Bates-Brownsword (416241) (Observer)
Sergeant Gordon Clyde Lloyd (412984) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Thomas Henry Straker (412041) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Holden White (406892) (Pilot)

References:

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9845, 246
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line

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